Please distribute to others who may be interested... You are hereby invited to a seminar in our tenth interdisciplinary series on Evolution, Complexity and Cognition <http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/108> (ECCO 2013-2014)
Time: Friday Nov. 15, 14h-16h Place: *room D.2.16* ------------------------------ ChallProp: an agent-based modelling framework for simulating the Global Brain Viktoras Veitas <http://[email protected]> (Global Brain Institute) Abstract: Global Brain is a cybernetic system consisting of a network of people and machines. Foundations of the mathematical model of the Global Brain, being developed by the Global Brain Institute (GBI), currently specifies micro-level behavior of network components and their interactions. One of the primary tools for studying macro-level behavior of the system is computer modelling and simulation. On the marco-level, the model can be understood as a dissipative information processing system able to self-organize towards efficient processing of information flow through it. Patterns of the emerging information flow through the network can then be interpreted as collective intelligence of the system. *Challprop* (challenge propagation modelling framework) is the software framework for running these simulations and analyzing their results. As such it is being specifically designed for the purposes of the Global Brain Institute. Yet it is conceived to be very flexible and modular to be able to accomodate changes of various parameters of the GB's mathematical model and model as many real world situations as possible. In that sense it is developing into a general agent-based modelling framework for simulating emergence of collective intelligence, so potentially very widely applicable. Challprop is an open-source project hosted at https://bitbucket.org/gbi/challprop. In this seminar I will discuss Challprop from conceptual as well as technological point of view and present the current status and the future plans for the project. ------------------------------ Upcoming Seminars *Nov. 22* Jon Echanove (ECCO) *Inclusiveness and Exposure: the experience of becoming global and the impact on organizations* *Nov. 29* Wolfgang Hofkirchner (Technical University of Vienna) *Global Consciousness – the global brain in the perspective of a global sustainable information society* *Dec. 6 * Lotte van Lith *Dabrowski's Theory of Positive Disintegration* *Dec. 13 * Atanu Chatterjee (Indian Institute of Technology) *? (the principle of least action as foundation for the theory of self-organization) ?* See also the ECCO/GBI calendar<https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=azMyN252aWluM2JoMnU3MXY5OGt2ZzliOGdAZ3JvdXAuY2FsZW5kYXIuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbQ> More info about the ECCO seminar program: http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/108 -- Evo Evo Busseniers - Seminar Coordinator ECCO Group (VUB) <http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/1> Email: [email protected] Website: http://vub.academia.edu/EvoBusseniers<http://be.linkedin.com/in/weaver9/>
